Bug 20982

Summary:	Window Maker segfaults on attempted startup
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc>
Component:	WindowMaker	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	hobbit
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Gregory Leblanc 2000-11-16 21:45:18 UTC

I've tried starting window maker both from the command line, and from the
gnome-control center, and it segfaults on me.  If I run gnome-cc at the
command line, I get:
wmaker fatal error: got signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
wmaker fatal error: got signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
wmaker fatal error: crashed while trying to do some post-crash cleanup.
Aborting immediately.

And from "gdb `which wmaker`" I get:
GNU gdb 19991004
...
This GDB was configured for "i386-redhat-linux"...
(no debugging symols found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/X11/wmaker
(no debugging symols found)...(no debugging symols found)...
(no debugging symols found)...(no debugging symols found)...
(no debugging symols found)...(no debugging symols found)...
(no debugging symols found)...(no debugging symols found)...
Xlib: extension "MIT-SHM" missing on display ":1.0".
(no debugging symols found)...(no debugging symols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x40048de5 in TIFFReadDirectory () from /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3
(gdb) bt
#0  0x40048de5 in TIFFReadDirectory () from /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3
#1  0x40088338 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3
#2  0x1 in ?? ()
Cannot access memory at address 0x3010a

I got the latter by doing "Xnest :1 & xterm -display :1 &" and then running
gdb inside of there.  I re-compiled WindowMaker and disable brp-strip and
brp-strip-comments, but I still can't read these errors.  Let me know what
I can do to debug.  Thanks.

Comment 1 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-04-02 22:05:10 UTC

could you try the latest libtiff from rawhide,
as well as sending me a copy of:

	rpm -qa | grep XF
	rpm -qa | grep WindomMaker
	rpm -q libtiff

thanks.

Comment 2 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-06-25 17:34:17 UTC

I'm pretty sure that the rawhide version addresses all these issues.
Reopen if necessary.